Thursday, April 3, 2008

Bullied, or Bully?

Northwest Arkansas Times digs up the dirt today on Billy Wolfe, the Fayetteville High School sophomore whose parents are suing one bully and a number of "John Does" over his maltreatment at school.

Wolfe, as you might remember, was the subject of a New York Times article last month which said the boy was the victim of repeated attacks at school, for reasons that he said were never really clear. Now, some of Wolfe's schoolyard adversaries are coming forward with stories that paint him as the aggressor.

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